Well, it has gotten to be another late/early hour here at the headquarters of this website.
Today, November 30, 2024, is the Feast of Saint Andrew the Apostle and is the last day of the liturgical year. The holy season of Advent begins with First Vespers this evening. I have just republished a set of Spiritual Resources for the, Christmas Novena, the Novena for the Feast of Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary, and the Novena/Miraculous Novena of Grace (which began on Sunday, November 24 2024, the Twenty-seventh and Last Sunday after Pentecost and the Commemorations of Saints John of the Cross and Chrysogonus).
This current article concerns the tragic situation in Ukraine that began on February 24, 2024, when Vladimir Putin's forces of the Russian Federation invaded Ukraine and have been prolonged needlessly the globalist powers of the West, including, of course, the outgoing administration of Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr., and Kamala Harris Emoff, as Ukrainian men have been sent to their deaths as so much cannon fodder and as many parts of its cities have been reduced to rubble. Men who are steeped in Original Sin and/or the throes of what are, objectively speaking, Mortal Sins even though they may not be aware of the fact, are prone to the use of force or to persist therein no matter what the human cost on lives lost, churches destroyed, infrastructures demolished to the point of making it difficulty to provide heat, proper santitation, and a clean water supply.
Obviously, this description applies equally to what the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) continues to do with the Palestinian people and has done in recent months in Lebanon, where a supposed cease-fire will take place is the IDF gets in a few last licks in the meantime.
As Pope Pius XI noted in Ubi Arcano Dei Consilio, December 23, 1922:
It is possible to sum up all We have said in one word, "the Kingdom of Christ." For Jesus Christ reigns over the minds of individuals by His teachings, in their hearts by His love, in each one's life by the living according to His law and the imitating of His example. Jesus reigns over the family when it, modeled after the holy ideals of the sacrament of matrimony instituted by Christ, maintains unspotted its true character of sanctuary. In such a sanctuary of love, parental authority is fashioned after the authority of God, the Father, from Whom, as a matter of fact, it originates and after which even it is named. (Ephesians iii, 15) The obedience of the children imitates that of the Divine Child of Nazareth, and the whole family life is inspired by the sacred ideals of the Holy Family. Finally, Jesus Christ reigns over society when men recognize and reverence the sovereignty of Christ, when they accept the divine origin and control over all social forces, a recognition which is the basis of the right to command for those in authority and of the duty to obey for those who are subjects, a duty which cannot but ennoble all who live up to its demands. Christ reigns where the position in society which He Himself has assigned to His Church is recognized, for He bestowed on the Church the status and the constitution of a society which, by reason of the perfect ends which it is called upon to attain, must be held to be supreme in its own sphere; He also made her the depository and interpreter of His divine teachings, and, by consequence, the teacher and guide of every other society whatsoever, not of course in the sense that she should abstract in the least from their authority, each in its own sphere supreme, but that she should really perfect their authority, just as divine grace perfects human nature, and should give to them the assistance necessary for men to attain their true final end, eternal happiness, and by that very fact make them the more deserving and certain promoters of their happiness here below.
It is, therefore, a fact which cannot be questioned that the true peace of Christ can only exist in the Kingdom of Christ -- "the peace of Christ in the Kingdom of Christ." It is no less unquestionable that, in doing all we can to bring about the re-establishment of Christ's kingdom, we will be working most effectively toward a lasting world peace. (Pope Pius XI, Ubi Arcano Dei Consilio, December 23, 1922.)
Although I had planned on giving more attention to the aforementioned Israeli genocide against the Palestinians in my next commentary, there is some "low hanging fruit," shall we say, that is ripe for the proverbial picking, namely, news the the spendthrift named Kamala Harris Emhoff is spending more money to find out why she lost to former President Donald John Trump on November 5, 2024, after burning up over one billion dollars in her failed campaign. Thus, I am going to give this matter some attention, if ever so brief, in my next commentary before I return to the ongoing slaughter of the Palestinians and the destruction of their residences.
Goodnight.
Good morning.
Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.
Saint Andrew the Apostle, pray for us.
